Personal details

17 April 1967

Born in Svendborg, Funen, Denmark, as the second daughter of  Lis and Henning Heide-Jorgensen.

Married, two sons.

Education and professional experience

1985             

Svendborg Statsgymnasium (sixth-form college), special subjects: classical languages (Greek and Latin).

1986

Law-student at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.

Attended lectures at the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

1992

Master of Laws, January 1992.

1992

Postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen for 6 months from February, the result of which was a small publication on human medicinal products and competition law (see publications list). Supervisor: Professor Kokvedgaard.

1992-1995

Junior lawyer with the Copenhagen law firm of Viltoft & Høberg-Petersen.
Senior lawyer June 1995.

1995-1998

PhD studies (December 1995) at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. Supervisor: Professor Koktvedgaard.

1998

Admitted to High Court, January 1998.

Spring 1998, studies at Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Munich; autumn 1998 studies at New York University.

1999

Assistant professorship at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.

Maternity leave December 1998 - June 1999.

2000

Spring, PhD dissertation "Liberale erhverv" (The professions, an analysis of the professions and competition and antitrust law in Denmark and the EU).

2000-2007

Work on doctoral thesis concerning advertising, competition law and human rights.

Spring, studies at Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Munich.

2002

Associate professorship in competition and anti-trust law at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.

2008- 

Professor in Competition Law and the Law of Unfair Competition at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.

LLD (Dr.jur.), February 2008.

Research stay at Institute of European and Comparative Law, Oxford University.

Administrative duties and other positions of trust

2002-2006

Academic Council of the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, substitute.

2006-2008

Head of Section 1 at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.

Director of Research Unit 1 at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.

Member of The Danish Radio and Television Board, appointed by the Minister for Culture. 

Teaching

1992-1996

Classes in Law of Torts and Obligations at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.

1998

Classes in Competition Law and the Law of Unfair Competition at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.

1999-2000

Classes in Law of Obligations.

2000-

Classes in Competition Law and the Law of unfair Competition.